1. FIRST STEPS.
2. WRITING ABOUT READING.
"The Civil Rights Movement Was the Sum of Many People" Paul Rogat Loeb.
"The Watcher at the Gates" Gail Godwin.
"Critical Response to 'Watcher at the Gates,'" Shenice Johnson (Student).
"We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks.
3. WRITING PARAGRAPHS: THE PROCESS.
4. REVISING PARAGRAPHS.
5. WRITING ESSAYS.
6. FAMILY AND THE SENSE OF SELF.
"Mother" Russell Baker.
"Fathers Playing Catch with Sons" Donald Hall.
"My Papa's Waltz" Theodore Roethke.
"To Be Thankful" Sam Masuno (Student).
7. A SENSE OF PLACE.
"Rules of the Game" Amy Tan.
"Self and World" Annie Dillard.
"Inheritance" Gary Soto.
"Garage" Norman Ferguson (Student).
8. CULTURE AND IDENTIFY.
"The Art of Lion Dancing" Donald Inn.
"In the Kitchen" Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"Marrying Absurd" Joan Didion.
"The Quilt: A Hmong Legacy" Ai Vang (Student).
9. GETTING AN EDUCATION.
"The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" Elizabeth Wong.
"I Just Wanna Be Average" Mike Rose.
"Theme for English B" Langston Hughes.
"The Truth About High School" Thomas Carbone (Student).
10. SELF AND OTHERS.
"Whatever Happened to Friendship" Art Jahnke.
"Personal Politics" Lindsay Van Gelder.
" Poison Tree" William Blake.
"Just Walk on By" Brent Staples.
"Ducks Vs. Hard Rocks" Deairich Hunter (Student).
11. MEN AND WOMEN.
"Why Can't He Hear What I'm Saying?" Deborah Tannen.
"The Men We Carry in Our Minds" Scott Russell Sanders.
"Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" Katha Pollitt.
"The River-Merchant's Wife" Li Po Tr. Ezra Pound.
"Relationships" Dan Krum (Student).
12. IMMIGRANTS.
"The Immigrants: How They're Helping? Michael J. Mandel/Christopher Farrell.
"Pursuit of Happiness" Dympna Ugwu-Oju.
"The Middle of Everywhere" Mary Pipher.
"Becoming an American" Tony Nunez (Student).
13. BETWEEN CULTURES.
"Border Culture" Ricardo Chavira.
"Complexion" Richard Rodriguez.
"The Good Daughter" Caroline Hwang.
"Can You Go Home Again?" Norma Davis (Student).
14. EVALUATING EXPERIENCE.
"Hypocrisy" Jamie Myers (Student).
"America, the Multicultural Society" Ishmael Reed.
"Indian Humor" Vine DeLoria.
15. THE WORKPLACE.
"The Good Mother: New Realities . . ." Susan Chira.
"The Organizer" Studs Terkel.
"Zipped Lips" Barbara Ehrenreich.
"The Perfect Job" David Owen.
"Short-Order Cook" Jim Daniels.
"The Emergency Room" Ernesto Morales (Student).
16. EXAMINING STEREOTYPES.
"A Black Athlete Looks at Education" Arthur Ashe.
"Don't Let Stereotypes warp Your Judgments" Robert Heilbroner.
"The Myth of the Latin Woman" Judith Ortiz Cofer.
"Muslim Women: An Identity Reduced to a Burka" Laila Al-Marayati and Semeen Isa.
"Nikki Rosa" Nikki Giovanni.
"Abuse of Authority" Jos?S. Altamirano (Student).
17. AGAINST INJUSTICE.
"Letter from the Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King Jr.
"Homelessness in America" Charles E. King.
"Internet Censorship Will Accomplish Nothing" Linda Lee (Student).
Three lines from "wind" by Ted Hughes.
Three lines from "Death Be Not Proud" John Donne.
18. RECOGNIZING VERBS.
19. WORKING WITH VERBS AND SUBJECTS.
20. REVISING FOR VERB-SUBJECT AND NOUN-PRONOUN AGREEMENT.
21. COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS AND OTHER CONNECTING WORDS.
22. SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS AND RELATIVE PRONOUNS.
23. CORRECTING FRAGMENTS AND RUN-ON SENTENCES.
24. MAKING LOGICAL CONNECTIONS.
25. CONSISTENCY OF PERSON AND TENSE.
26. MECHANICS: A FEW BASIC RULES FOR WRITERS.
APPENDIX A.
APPENDIX B.
APPENDIX C.
APPENDIX D.
COPYRIGHTS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
INDEX.
